Fumie Suguri

Fumie Suguri
Fumie Suguri at the 2003 NHK Trophy
nation	Japan
birthday	December 31, 1980
place of birth	Chiba
size	157 cm
Weight	45 kg
Career
Trainer	Noriko Sato, Igor Paschkewitsch, Alexei Mishin, Nikolai Morosow, Alexander Schulin, Nobuo Sato, Nobuko Fukui, Shinji Someya, Oleg Wasiliew
choreographer	Lori Nichol, Vakhtang Murwanidze, Nikolai Morosow, Alexander Schulin, David Wilson, Noriko Sato
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 2 × VKM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Nagano 2002 Ladies bronze Washington 2003 Ladies silver Calgary 2006 Ladies Four continents championships gold Salt Lake City 2001 Ladies gold Beijing 2003 Ladies gold Gangneun 2005 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 182.08 GPF 2004  Freestyle 120.06 GPF 2004  Short program 62.12 World Cup 2006
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 1 7th 4th
last change: December 26, 2010

Fumie Suguri ( Japanese 村 主 章 枝 , Suguri Fumie ; born December 31, 1980 in Chiba , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run .

Career

Suguri started ice skating in Anchorage when he was five . Her father, a pilot, worked in Alaska. She was six years old when she returned to Japan. Her mother immediately took her to an ice skating school. Fumie's sister Chika is also a figure skater.

Suguri became the Japanese Champion in 1997, 2001-2003 and 2006 . In 2004 she became the first Japanese woman to win the Grand Prix final in Colorado Springs . Suguri was also the first Japanese woman to win the Four Continents Championships in Salt Lake City in 2001 . She won the competition again in 2003 and 2005. With three victories, she is the record winner at the four continents championships.

At world championships Suguri reached the podium three times. In 2002 and 2003 she won the bronze medal and in 2006 she was vice world champion in Calgary behind Kimmie Meissner . She took part in two Olympic Games . She finished fifth in Salt Lake City in 2002 and fourth in Turin in 2006 .

In 2016 Suguri took part in the ISU Adult Figure Skating Competition and took first place in Masters Elite Ladies I Artistic Skating and third place in Masters (Elite) Ladies I Free Skating. In 2017 she competed again in free skating and came third again.

Personal

In November 2014, Suguri came out as bisexual.

Results

Competition / season	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11
winter Olympics							5.				4th
World championships		18th		20th		7th	3.	3.	7th	5.	2.			8th.
Four continents championships				5.	4th	1.		1.		1.		Z	10.	6th
Grand Prix Final				5.				6th	1.			4th
Junior World Championships	4th	4th
Japanese championships	4th	1.	2.	2.	3.	1.	1.	1.	2.	3.	1.	4th	4th	2.	7th	7th

• Z = withdrawn

Suguri at Skate Canada in 2008

Web links

Commons : Fumie Suguri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fumie Suguri in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Fumie Suguri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Masters Elite Ladies I Artistic
2. ↑ Masters (Elite) Ladies I Free Skating
3. ↑ Masters Elite Ladies I Free Skating
4. ↑ International Press en español . Retrieved May 3, 2017